Technology

Cosmic Dust, Fish-Inspired Wind Farms And DARPA's Quest For The New GPS

We are stardust- scientists and citizen scientists alike Physics Today's Ashley Smart describes a huge recent win for citizen science: some 30,000 volunteers pored over millions of microscopic images looking for dust collected a decade ago by NASA� ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2014 - 7:00am

Transverse Field Detectors Gather 12 Times More Information Than The Human Eye

A new imaging system is capable of obtaining up to twelve times more color information than the human eye and conventional cameras, which implies a total of 36 color channels. The system involves a new generation of sensors in combination with a matrix of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2014 - 11:28am

A Science 2.0 Approach To Knowledge Sharing In The Healthcare Sector

Social network analysis could improve knowledge sharing in the healthcare sector, according to a paper which shows how knowledge management systems (KMS) can be critical in capturing, retaining and communicating project results and staff knowledge. They c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2014 - 11:01am

24 hours with Windows 10 on a Surface Pro 3

After 24 hours of using Windows 10, as a tablet user, it is an incremental improvement on Windows 8.1.  The biggest improvement is that my Pro 3's WiFi now works without issues. Right now Windows 10 is not a HUGE revolutionary jump that would merit sk ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 3 2014 - 9:48am

RCas9: A Programmable RNA Editing Tool

A tool for editing the DNA instructions in a genome can now also be applied to RNA, the molecule that translates DNA's genetic instructions into the production of proteins, according to a team of researchers who demonstrated a means by which the CRIS ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 6:30pm

COWL Web Privacy System Promises Safer Surfing

A team of engineers have built a new system that protects Internet users' privacy while increasing the flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from different web sites, dramatically improving the safety of surfing t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 7:24pm

Citizen Science Can Help Reduce Scientific Fraud And Cherry-Picking

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, is worried about the lack of reproducibility and 'secret sauce' in a large number of studies funded by their $30 billion government agency.  Fraud happens everywhere, as doe ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2014 - 11:12am

Science 2.0: 'Data Smashing' With An Algorithm Could Unshackle Automated Discovery

A little known secret in data mining is that simply feeding raw data into a data analysis algorithm is unlikely to produce meaningful results. From recognizing speech to identifying unusual stars, new discoveries often begin with comparison of data stream ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2014 - 7:00am

Well Latte Duh, Latte Duh.

For most of humanity's existence, our kind have worried about getting enough to eat. So we may see it as a good sign that now some of our species are worried about not getting organic milk in their lattes and frappes. "Where oh where shall I ever ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Oct 12 2014 - 12:30am

3-D Printer Creates Emergency Trachea Implant, Saves Baby's Life

By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) –   You've seen toys and prosthetics made on a 3-D printer but now, scientists are using 3-D printers to build implants that help babies breathe. Natalie Peterson, a parent of a child who was having ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 13 2014 - 10:20am